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Collectively, the six women spend a considerable amount of their professional and personal time along Rhode Island’s coast, so their answers to the question proved revealing.
Anywhere there is colorful salt marsh. Prudence Island. Matunuck. Napatree Point. Point Judith Pond. Sachuest Point. Emilie Ruecker Wildlife Refuge.
Pam Rubinoff
As Pam Rubinoff, a coastal resilience specialist with Rhode Island Sea Grant and the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island, noted, most if not all of their answers to the question What is your favorite spot along the Rhode Island coast? revolved around the natural word. The only real mention of a human-made feature was the Cliff Walk in Newport.
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We ve been spending more time outdoors and getting in each other’s space, with heated results.
February 9, 2021
Standing on her driveway in South Kingstown, Margaret Bucheit points to a stone wall less than 200 feet away that marks the boundary of the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge. Its proximity is worrisome to Bucheit and her neighbors because the refuge will be allowing bowhunting in the adjacent woodlands for the first time beginning next fall, and the prospect makes them feel unsafe.
While she doesn’t object to hunting her husband, William Ohley, frequently hunts with a long-bow she has witnessed poachers in clandestine hunting stands and drunk hunters in areas that have been closed to hunting since the refuge was established in 1973.
Five cool activities to invigorate your Newport winter
Bob Curley
Newport Life magazine
Having all four seasons of weather is part of the reason Newporters say they love living here. But do we really love our coastal winters?
Winter is hard to embrace when you spend the season plowing, driving in snow and slush, and hunkering down against the cold. The key is to button up, venture outside, and revel in the cool (and not all cold) winter activities awaiting you in
Newport County.
EDITORS NOTE: Some activities may not be available due to the current health crisis. Check before making plans.